Another Hocking in camborne

[tolencat84]

Hello

I am trying to track down the marriage of John Hocking and a lady named Elizabeth in Camborne. My census information puts them both at the same age (both born in 1828) but the only marriage I can find that ties in with the locations and birth of their first child has John down as full age but with Elizabeth as a minor in 1847. In which case they would both be 19 or 18.


Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Sarah 😀

[sue]

Hi Sarah

If the family you are trying to identify is 1851 census as follows:
HOCKING John Head 25 Miner Cornwall - Camborne
HOCKING Elizabeth Wife 25 Cornwall - Camborne
HOCKING Mary Dau 4 Cornwall - Camborne
HOCKING John Son 1m Cornwall - Camborne
HOCKING Sarah Mother 52 Miners Widow Cornwall - Camborne
NICHOLAS Richard Lodger 14 Miner Cornwall - Camborne
NICHOLAS Henry Lodger 9 Miner Cornwall - Camborne

then there is a bit of a clue in the names of the 14 & 9 year old lodgers, surname Nicholas..... brothers of the wife Elizabeth, perhaps?

11 January 1847 John Hocking married Elizabeth Nicholas - the marriage you have in mind, I think. www.cornwall-opc-database.org

This identification is underlined by the 1871 census, where the sons' names include both Simon & Edward - the named fathers of the bride & groom at the 1847 marriage. And other sons have the names Richard & William Henry....

Sue

[tolencat84]

Brilliant thank you, I was just thrown by the whole minor thing, I didn't even think about the lodgers surnames.

[sue]

We all need to be helped back on track sometimes! Maybe the groom wanted to make out to his bride's family that he was older and more responsible than was actually so....

Onward & upward!

Sue

[tolencat84]

It's great to have a site like this, when I first started my family tree I was too trusting of the information out there, especially on ancestry, I had to start it all over again. Now I triple check everything and still assume it could be wrong. 😀